Posts tagged with ‘privatisation’

In 2015, it was announced that the Met Office had lost the contract to provide the BBC’s weather for the first time since forecasts started in 1922, with the contract instead going to MeteoGroup. Towards the end of last year, it was announced that MeteoGroup were behind schedule in their work towards providing the BBC’s […]

A row is emerging over whether the Queen’s head will remain on postage stamps when the Royal Mail is privatised as per the government’s plans. Ever since the first ever stamp, the Penny Black, British stamps have featured the head of the monarch. In the ’60s, the then Postmaster-General Tony Benn, a well-known republican, proposed […]

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Everyone who wants us to #Remain in the EU should permanently stop using Facebook after seeing these disgusting targeted ads bbc.in/2AeH6kj It used to be tabloids that wielded huge power; now it's Facebook. Leave Facebook, not the EU, and free the web while you're at it~2 weeks agoReplyRetweetFavourite

Found @Namesco have broken one of my PHP scripts since the transfer from @virtualnames as allow_url_fopen is not enabled. Apparently if I pay 3 times as much for CPanel they will enable it. I never asked for this; forced to become a Namesco customer.~3 months agoReplyRetweetFavourite